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"...'A house divided against itself, cannot stand'... ...I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other..." Abraham Lincoln

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 3m

2 day & Netanyahu is accusing Gaza Palestinians of breaking conditions of the ceasefire...
Were the 5 killed by IDF, limiting of food to 300 trucks a day to feed 2M people part of this deal?

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Israel accuses Hamas of violating Trump ceasefire already

Israel accused Hamas of violating a days-old ceasefire agreement with the slow release of the remains of dead hostages.

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 10m

On this day in 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of Saint Helena to begin his final exile of 6 years...
The French Revolution turned in a few short years from a monarchy, to the First French Republic, to an emperor set on worldwide conquest...

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 20m

On this day in 1522 King of Spain Charles V named Hernán Cortés governor of Mexico following his conquest of the indigenous Aztec people...
Estimates nearly a quarter million Aztecs were killed in combat, by small pox/measles/typhus killing an estimated 5 to 9 million...

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 35m

I plan on joining my local NO KINGS protest Saturday..
This is the 1st time since taking to the streets in May 1972 that I worry about possible arrest for simply protesting in America...
Those day cops were local not federal thugs wearing masks, refusing to identified themselves...
Be prepared!

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 43m

Cox Richardson explains why this shutdown is different & who's behind it...
Pottery Barn Syndrome - you broke it, you bought it...

October 14, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 48m

Terminator: Rise of the Machines?

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 50m

Even a blind right-wing Buffalo Chip Bok finds the occasional pasture...

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 53m

They caused it, they own it...
Maybe Oligarch Elon, data Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, MBS, the Emir of Qatar will "float 'em a loan"...

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 58m

Be prepared for martial law to be imposed shortly after the NO KINGS DAY protests on Saturday...
Our cabal has charged that people refusing to accept their attacks on Americans are organizing murder/kidnapping of officials for hire in retaliation...
No proof is offered, only their claim...

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 9h

The majority in Ontario voted this asshat into office...

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Johnny Queer @queerboy66.bsky.social · 9h

My God he is a thug.

DJ (he, him)🏳️‍🌈 @dmrh0720.bsky.social · 10h

This is the Premier of Ontario - no due process there!

toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/14/p...?

Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up Home Depot shoplifter

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up a Home Depot shoplifter over the summer.

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 9h

Seems some Canadians are nuttier than squirrel sh*t too...

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 10h

$20B political slush fund used to elect a president of Argentina? On record to pull funds if he isn't elected...
Who authorized that?

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Watch: Trump takes questions in bilateral meeting with Argentina's President Javier Milei

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 11h

"Uncle Fumbles" - We have the most transparent government in American history...

Apparently nobody told Drunky Hegseth this when he denied press credentials to all media networks including Fox, except for OAN...

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Pete Hegseth Is About to Kick All Outlets Out of the Pentagon—but One

Only one network has agreed to sign Hegseth’s new rules for reporters.

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 12h

DW Network -
- Israel limiting 300 trucks with food/day to feed 2M people...
- 6 Palestinians killed today by Israel...
- Hamas is still armed in Gaza, executing anyone they think collaborated...
- Arab oil states are supposed to underwrite rebuilding IF peace occurs...

So what has changed?

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Ken in Maine @kpjordan.bsky.social · 19h

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 18h

I absolutely love this for him 🤗

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot...

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 18h

Of course you don't, asshole!

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 18h

But I'm attacking you, arrogant feckless POS!

Kiss my fucking ass!

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 18h

Excellent piece by Pete Buttigieg...

The Cost of Trump’s Politicization of the Military
open.substack.com/pub/petebutt...

The Cost of Trump’s Politicization of the Military

They’ve crossed one line after another since January - and we must not become numb to the mounting damage to our military and national security.

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Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 18h

At least we have Mamdani/AOC/Crockett/Omar trying to make a difference...

Rather than assume I'm just a "blue MAGA," read my posts...you might learn something, rather than simply being tribal...

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 18h

If you could do better, get off the keyboard and try to make things better all by yourself...
You're likely afraid of failure...most people that don't use their real names on social media generally are...

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 19h

With that in mind...
If Persian, do you use the same type of justification to differentiate between the Shah & the ayatollahs?
I knew many Iranians, attending school here in the 1970s who were scared to death of the SAVAK...
Iranians of today are equally scared of the mullahs...

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 19h

We all carry baggage...some far worse than others...

Joe Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 19h

Thought you wrote you were done...
I'll fix it for you...